Yeah, I can't imagine talking therapy or anything being remotely useful for her. I don't even think it's something she thinks about - it's instinctive for her to lie every time she opens her mouth, and has been for as long as I can remember.
The sad thing is that, except for her oldest son (who just turned 25), the kids know she can be a handful but don't anything about any of this other stuff. (They're 18 and 16.) They're probably going to find out the hard way one day.
xxp Thanks, suzy. My mom just basically wants her out of her life. If that means letting the money go, that's what it means.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Monday, 16 June 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
I just remembered that four years ago she told everyone she had MS. (This was at a time when my wife and I were doing charity fundraising and bike riding for the National MS Society.) We have never heard another word about this diagnosis, which is almost certainly a lie.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Monday, 16 June 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
I hope karma gives her fast-onset motor-neuron disease for lying about MS. Bonus: she wouldn't be able to move or speak, which would cut down on the interactive lying.
My mom flip-flops on wanting to take action on my sister but ultimately sees herself as the failure if anything goes public, rather than the wronged party. I just want my mom to have the happy retirement she planned and worked for, and for my sister to take her equally shiftless and over-entitled husband and get the fuck out of my mother's house. She's caused enough interfamily bullshit.
― show me new tweets (suzy), Monday, 16 June 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
obv all this is horrible but your guitar, jeez, so infuriating
― kinder, Monday, 16 June 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
your sister sounds just awful, phil, and the worst part is she has kids - how incredibly hard it must be having someone like that as a parent. i hope their father is a good man.
― just1n3, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Fathers, plural. Three different fathers, one of whom we don't even know who it is. As to how good they are . . . it varies. The oldest is trying to have a relationship with his dad, but pretty much knows his mom is poison and wants nothing to do with her.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Monday, 16 June 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Damn man
― Nhex, Monday, 16 June 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
oh maaaan :/
are you close with the kids? i hope they can cut her off permanently. ppl like bring nothing but bad things and harm into the lives of those around them.
― just1n3, Monday, 16 June 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
otm
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
Unfortunately I'm not as close as I should be, because I spent a number of years when they were younger living away, but I do try to be in their lives and communicate with them. They all have a good relationship with their various grandparents, the oldest is very close to his two sisters (one of them my sister's daughter, the other his father's daughter by his second wife), and my sister's most recent ex is actually who my niece lives with.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Monday, 16 June 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-your-child-is-a-psychopath/524502/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
I read that last week. Never really thought about child psychopaths before!
― It's always (sunny successor), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link